Yangqu

See also: yángqù

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽曲／阳曲.

Proper noun

Yangqu

1. A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
   • [1977 February, Tsung-ying Lee, “Eastern Diary”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume XVI, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2:

     Autumn 1947 saw Hua as Party secretary of Yangchu county in Shansi and political commissar to the local forces there.]

   • [1986, Niu Su, “Tou Pu-yi [窦不疑]”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., Ghost Stories of Old China [不怕鬼的故事] (Asia Pacific Heritage Series [亚洲太平洋传统文学丛书])‎^[2], Asiapac Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:

     Tou Pu-yi, the grandson of a famous minister of the Wu Teh Era¹, served as captain of the Imperial Guard before retiring on account of old age. He went home to Taiyuan where he had a house in Yangchu County, north of the city.]

   • 1996, Roger R. Thompson, “Twilight of the Gods in the Chinese Countryside: Christians, Confucians, and the Modernizing State, 1861-1911”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present‎^[3], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:

     The issue of funding temple festivals, however, would not go away; missionaries repeatedly asked the French minister to address this problem. For example, in a letter that arrived in Beijing on 2 December 1861 describing the situation in Yangqu County in Taiyuan Prefecture, a missionary complained that even though the Zongli yamen had sent a document on these matters to provincial authorities, nothing had changed.

   • 2008 March 5, Liu Zhen, Nick Mulvenney, “China ramps up psychology and downplays medal hopes”, in Alastair Himmer, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-05-28, Sports News‎^[5]:

     Local residents hold flags of various nations to form the Olympic Rings to celebrate the Spring Festival and promote the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on the Loess Plateau in Yangqu country, Shanxi province February 16, 2008.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽曲／阳曲 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangqu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 3